Biblical Archaeology 101: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries With Dr. Scott Stripling
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Scott Stripling to discuss the fascinating and complex realm of Biblical archaeology. Dr. Stripling is the Director of Excavations for the Associates for Biblical Research at ancient Shiloh and serves as Provost and Director of the Archaeology Institute at The Bible Seminary in Katy, Texas. From directing ABR excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir to serving as Field Supervisor at Tall el-Hammam in Jordan, his work has taken him across the globe – in search of uncovering the mysteries of the past…
Dr. Stripling has been published in peer-reviewed journals, popular magazines, and books. He is also a popular speaker at churches and conferences worldwide and has guest appearances on numerous television programs and documentaries.
Want to know how Dr. Stripling fulfills his passion for connecting the material culture of the Holy Land with the Biblical text? Hit play now to dive in!
Join us as we cover:
- How Dr. Stripling's work has influenced his faith.
- The importance of having a productive dialogue about the relationship between archaeology and Biblical texts.
- Shocking archaeological finds and how they inform the human story as a whole.
- Fascinating information regarding the Shiloh excavation project.
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That are Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest today is Dr. Scott Stripling. He's the director of the |
| 0:44.2 | Archaeology Institute at the Bible Seminary in Katie Texas. If you look on |
| 0:48.7 | YouTube, if you look at Bible Archaeology, all one word put together, That's their channel. We're going to talk |
| 0:54.2 | about the cursed tablet on Mount Ebal, the building of the Tabernacle of Shiloh, |
| 0:58.3 | and more biblical archaeology type elements that I'm not very familiar with but undoubtedly Scott will be so |
| 1:04.6 | welcome Scott. |
| 1:05.6 | Hey thank you excited to be with you today. |
| 1:08.6 | Well excellent tell me a bit about your background and what got you into this area of study? Well, that's a great question. |
| 1:14.0 | I was a biblical studies major and was a pastor, |
| 1:19.0 | an obsessive reader of the biblical text, |
| 1:21.0 | and the background of the biblical text. I went to seminary and which was a great experience but I came away with just as many questions as I had answers and I kept encountering people saying that archaeology |
| 1:35.2 | contradicted the biblical text or the chavlens storicity of the text and that sort of |
| 1:42.0 | became a deep dive to me. I doubted that that was true and I wanted to explore it for myself. |
| 1:47.0 | So I began to just consume everything I could get a hold of. Books, magazines back then, you know, videos of TV programs, ultimately started taking some courses, |
| 1:57.7 | volunteering on digs, and kind of set a course, if you will, and the deeper I I went the more that I wanted to know and you know |
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